Iris Sidikman, harm reduction program coordinator for Women's Health Center of West Virginia, speaks during a public hearing July 2023 about the former abortion clinic's bid to offer syringe services ...

The Indiana Senate has approved changes to a bill extending state approval for syringe services programs for five years.

A Lewis County church has filed a federal lawsuit challenging restrictions on syringe services, arguing the county’s 2024 ordinance unlawfully limits access to lifesaving health care and discriminates ...

LOWELL — Do syringe service programs, where persons who inject drugs can access sterile needles and syringes, belong near schools and parks and other areas that attract families and children? And does ...

In March 2024, Oregon quashed its efforts to decriminalize illicit drugs, which would have been the first of such laws in the nation, but the debate on how to curb the growing drug overdose epidemic ...

Katherine Hill is an epidemiologist, harm reduction researcher and PhD candidate at the Yale School of Public Health studying the drug supply in the Northeastern U.S. Both her grandmother and father ...

In our clinical training as local medical students, we’ve met patients whose lives could have been transformed by access to syringe service programs. The teen with HIV whose body shuts down when she ...

More than three years have passed since federal health officials arrived in central Appalachia to assess an alarming outbreak of HIV spread mostly between people who inject opioids or methamphetamine.